Motivational Quotes

Courage

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Courage

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare